Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emerging one step ahead of Mr. Murray, Harvey Fremming of C. I. O.'s Oil Workers Union stormed sarcastically: "We found out what a labor oligarchy is. They said, 'We can't take you in because you'll break up our little playhouse...
...Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Happy, Bashful and Dopey, who did not know if he could talk because he never tried. Squatty and bearded, looking much alike except for Dopey who, being younger, has no beard, the seven dwarfs have timid hearts: they know Snow White is the Queen's step-daughter and will not keep her till she promises to make gooseberry pie. Snow White will not let them eat until they wash their hands...
...visitors get past the tiny reception office of the Disney studios. But if a privileged investigator could stay around for the six months it takes to complete a typical cartoon short, he would find it a highly efficient, if occasionally cockeyed, procedure. First step in the making of any Disney picture is the story conference, at which the Disney story staff gathers to sort out ideas that may have grown out of their half-dozen minds, or may have been plucked out of the studio gag library, a sort of omnibus of humor and situations from Aesop to Captain Billy...
...business analyst named James O. Mc-Kinsey to study the matter. Hulking, robust J. O. McKinsey was born a poor boy, became a professor, had never held a corporate job. But when he made his report after four months work, the directors were so impressed that they took a step drastic in any business and completely unprecedented in Field's 70-year-history of rooted conservatism-they made J. O. McKinsey chairman of the board and absolute dictator of company policy (TIME...
...quasi-judicial body, the ICC is accustomed to ponder its decisions long and earnestly. But established practice before any commission allows a petitioner to request an immediate emergency order after presentation of ample evidence pending a final decision. Last week the railroads resolved to take this step. Through the Association of American Railroads they asked that the ICC provide an emergency rate rise immediately to last until February when final hearings had been scheduled. The reason: many roads could not hold out two months longer...